Galen
Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer2025 rank
#4,442
down −1,678 places
2025 births
23
down −24 births
All-time births
16,500
0% of them in 2025
More common than
98%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1949
- 433 births
- Best rank
- #329
- in 1949
- First recorded
- 1889
- #917 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1963
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 128 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1949433#329Peak
- 1951378#352
- 1948342#367
- 1950326#374
- 1954307#409
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #329 in 1949 · peak births 433 in 1949
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 97% boys■ 3% girls
16,500 boys · 560 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Galen has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.